A meeting was held in Shreveport, Monday discussed options on how to proceed with choosing the state’s congressional map. Attorney General Liz Murrill released a statement that the Secretary of State has issued a May 15th deadline for a map to be in place for the fall election. In the statement she said the panel is inclined to move the deadline that she says will quote “create more chaos” for the state’s congressional election. Murrill wants the current map that was passed by lawmakers to remain in place.
Jared Evans, an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who defended the overturned map says the judges don’t believe a new map can be in place by next Wednesday.
Murrill said the US Supreme Court is expected to review the case this week.
A three-judge panel issued a decision last week that Louisiana’s congressional map creating a second majority-black district was unconstitutional because of racial gerrymander. They sided in a two to one vote with the plaintiffs who sued, leaving Louisiana as the only state in the country without a congressional map.
A statewide poll conducted for the Times-Picayune and the Advocate finds only 21-percent of voters approve of how Governor Jeff Landry is handling the state’s insurance crisis. UL-M political science professor Pearson Cross says the low the percentage could be that voters lack understanding of the insurance reform legislation that’s lawmakers are debating…
The Louisiana House is scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to hold a Constitutional Convention later this month. Revising the constitution is one of Governor Jeff Landry’s priorities, but political analyst Bernie Pinsonat says it will need a two-thirds majority to pass.
The full House was scheduled to vote on the bill last week, but it was pushed to Tuesday.